Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simplicity, however, is not hydrogen's only attribute. In its liquid state, it is one of the most intractable and unforgiving substances on earth. It is given to violent explosions on the slightest opportunity. It was only natural that the very presence of a tank of liquid hydrogen was immediately blamed last week for the blasts that rocked the Harvard-M.I.T. electron accelerator laboratory at Cambridge and injured eight young scientists...
...boiling point (-423° F.) to control vaporization. As a liquid, it is not readily flammable. It is when it vaporizes and comes in contact with oxygen that hydrogen becomes explosive. Which makes for a vicious problem: how to let off the inevitable vapors and avoid rupture of the tank as a result of the pressure of expanding gas, without running the risk of a fire outside the tank. Surprisingly, there have been few serious accidents in handling the stuff...
Hearing Miller's report that "the outer-wing tank has blown," Kimes called the San Francisco tower. "Clipper 843. Mayday! Mayday! We got problems with power here." No answer. Kimes called again, more insistently. The tower heard this time, told him that other planes in the area were holding, and that he was "cleared to land on any runway...
...upward in a ghastly comber, spitting fragments of molten metal into the air. What Miller could not see, because his view was blocked by the inboard engine, was even more chilling. No. 4 engine had dropped off, ripping a hole in the wing skin and puncturing the wing tip tank, igniting its 70 gal. of kerosene. One-third of its 83-ft. right wing was gone. Aerodynamically, Flight 843 should already have crashed...
...experience and dedication." His own dice with Clark at Brands Hatch had convinced him that Jim "had the 10% in full." Already hard at work on a revolutionary Grand-Prix-car design-a "monocoque" body shell that needed no tubular skeleton, was actually little more than a steerable gas tank on wheels-Chapman decided that Clark was just the man to drive it. If he could...